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====Major Malone Power Outage Planned, Affecting CS IT Service - October 23 & 24, 2021====
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====Major Malone Power Outage Planned, Affecting CS IT Services - Friday, Aug 11, 2023 from 12am to 1am====
  
 
:'''WHAT:''' There will be '''''no''''' CS IT computing services available during an upcoming major power outage for ALL of Malone Hall.
 
:'''WHAT:''' There will be '''''no''''' CS IT computing services available during an upcoming major power outage for ALL of Malone Hall.
  
:'''WHEN:'''  Saturday, October 23, 2021,  starting at '''3''pm''''' and running until Sunday, October 24, 2021, sometime around '''6''am'''''.
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:'''WHEN:'''  Friday, August 11, 2023,  starting at '''12''am (midnight)''''' and running until sometime around '''1''am''''' (so, roughly, an hour.)
  
 
:'''DESCRIPTION:'''  JHU is planning an a power outage for Malone Hall, and all of our computing services will be unavailable during that time.
 
:'''DESCRIPTION:'''  JHU is planning an a power outage for Malone Hall, and all of our computing services will be unavailable during that time.
  
:The actual power outage is now planned to start at 4pm, Saturday afternoon, October 23, and will continue overnight until Sunday morning, October 24 at 4am.  However, we need to safely bring down our computer servers and clients earlier than that (before the power goes out.)  We plan to bring our systems down around '''3pm''' that Saturday afternoon.  And although the power should be up around 4am Sunday morning, we will not have all our systems back up and running until approx. 6am, so plan on about 2 hours after the power outage is deemed over until our servers and services are available again.
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:The actual power outage is planned to start at 12am, early Friday morning, August 11, and will continue for approximately an hour'''''However,''''' we need to safely bring down our computer servers and clients ''earlier'' than that (before the power goes out.)  We plan to bring our systems down around '''___''' the ''evening of Thursday, August 10.'' And although the power should restored around 1am Friday morning, we will not have all our systems back up and running until approx. ___am, so plan on about ___ hours after the power outage is deemed over until our servers and services are available again.
  
  
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====CS IT Services ''Un''available During The Power Outage Include...====
 
====CS IT Services ''Un''available During The Power Outage Include...====
  
* DNS resolution (hostname lookups) for all cs.jhu.edu hostnames will be unavailable.  This will affect all websites with cs.jhu.edu domain names, even if the website is hosted by someone other than the CS department.
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*'''''IS THIS STILL TRUE''''' * DNS resolution (hostname lookups) for all cs.jhu.edu hostnames will be unavailable.  This will affect all websites with cs.jhu.edu domain names, even if the website is hosted by someone other than the CS department.
  
 
* CS Mail service, both incoming and outgoing, will be suspended for CS Grad/Research Net users.  And some CS email services will not be available for CS Ugrad Net users.
 
* CS Mail service, both incoming and outgoing, will be suspended for CS Grad/Research Net users.  And some CS email services will not be available for CS Ugrad Net users.

Revision as of 17:39, 24 July 2023


CS IT STAFF AVAILABILITY

  • The CS IT Support staff is back in Malone Hall. Our group is working a hybrid schedule with some of us working remotely on certain days, while others of our team are on campus.
  • We continue being available M-F, 8:30 to 5pm, but there may be certain times we might be online only.
  • Therefore, please remember to email support@cs.jhu.edu for assistance.
  • Also, please have Zoom available on your device(s), so that we can arrange to contact you using that method, as an alternative to in-person communication.
  • For the time being, Steve DeBlasio, our accounts liaison, is providing a virtual version of his daily office hours for accounts, etc. Email support@cs.jhu.edu for details.


CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

UNPLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

None at this time


PLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

None at this time.



CS COMPUTING LAB AVAILABILITY

MH-122 (CS Undergrad Lab/Collaboration room): Is available for in-person access.
  • All CS Linux systems from that room (ugrad1 through ugrad12) are available for use in-person or remotely, via ssh.


G-61 (CS Masters/Ugrad Labs): Is now available for in-person access.
  • All CS Linux systems in this lab area (masters1 through masters16 and ugrad13 through ugrad24) are available for use in-person or remotely, via ssh.


AUDIO/VISUAL (A/V) OUTAGES

None at this time.